The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-03-25

orma, were Two other young women, bolh
dead evidently instantly killed their
heo1s cruahed beyond recognition They
also lay wodgod IN between the debris Of
the wreck, pinnod down % tightly that
action WAS inpossIble and here again Il
reQuirrd jack-screwp. levero and saws u
extricate The rcmaina One woman. whc
suffered only, and INTERNATIONALLY enough,
iron slight injury . her fest. was 70
moved from this impromptu conn and
carried homo.
Another woman lay cramped between
two car seats with life exunct; not I
mark appeared upon her body 70 indicat<
how death approached. Extended with
arDs pushed forward, - though en-
deavoring - ward % the crashing
timben which fell about, but which did
not touch Der. che lay there - calm-a
poaring - though n sleep but the awful
position N which the body lay left no
doubt but that IN the upheaval q the
3vortnrning cor, the woman became
Wedgod between the seats aud her young
life slowly cropt from the fratl body. u
was On awful sight Right q her elbow
wa another less fortunate. who while
killed, must have suffered terrible agony
before death relieved her.
The majority Of passengers In tho cars
which plunged % death were women, all
young, happy, hopeful creatureA whose
tiny sachels with carefully pre- pared
lunchoa, told pathstically, - no words
possibly can, the circumstances Of their
daily lives
Ben Goldsmith. resident Of west Rox-
bury. was ono Of tho fortunate passen-
gers. He was In the last car 70 land safe
" on the further side Of the brid GO, and -
the cor which followed his plunged back
ward and down into eternity, he jumped
through the rear Of the car and landed
upon the embankment safe, a. the dying
cries were sent up from the commingled
and indistinguishable mass below.
In the frat car that went down at side
BY side Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Cardinal Mrs.
Cardinals head struck the side Of the
car. and she was instantly killed Mr..
Cardinal escaped with his life. His in
juries were summed up Is follows: Sc
we're scalp wounds, confusion Of the chest
with bloody expectoration, confusion Of
the hip besides severe bruises on almost
every part Of his body.
In the smoker Mr.. Roundy. aged fftys
was playing cards with Ed SNOW, Harry
Gay and Oficcr Lailler. Every one Of his
companions were killed outright and .
few moments later Mr.. Roundy found
himself standing on the soft clay mud Of
Roslindale road, his clothing torn, the
blood streaming from ais face and head,
holding in his hand the queen Of dia.
monds, the surviving relic, besides him
self Of game that will never be finished.
Roundy managed to get home, where be
= now lying in . critical condition
Robert T. Abraham was jammed in be-
tween the seats badly and his leg broken.
His daughter, Nellie, was badly injured
in many places about the limbs and body,
and all her front teeth were knocked out
and several Of them were swallowed.
A pathetic sight was that Of two girls
with arms around one another, clinging
in the embrace Of death. Both had boon
killed by blows upon the head
One man was found sitting upright in
his seat, but stark dead. with blood fiow-
ing in several small streams from cuts on
the head
The women had an awful time in getting
out Many left their clothing. which was
torn from their forms There were young
girls together, - Il they had occupied two
seats facing each other. All those pinned
down in the cars had . horrible fear Of
dre, and shrieked for assistance to escape
possible cremation.
Owing to the fact that many OF the vic
Tins were removed in the way above de-
scribed, IL Is impossible to give an abso-
lutelv correct list Fully seventy persons
are believed to have boon injured. OF
these q number will die The railroad
officials are making . dilligent effort "a
ascertain the exact number Of killed and
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